It's hard to understand what's going on without witnessing it: kids are collecting ~50 files, throwing it into a packaged fine-tuning tool, or worse yet, just putting an image through i2i to wash off giveaway features and claiming to be an "artists". And those "arts" aren't that well received by audiences. There are some low-budget fringe use cases but those are low-effort low-return stuff. People say the AIs are getting better, but those to me are just trying to be optimistic.

Nothing is taken over by AI, but just young clinical psychopath types are being enabled to be burned later at the expense of all. That's kind of wrong.